This paper examines the ways that Wisconsin contingency fee lawyers obtain clients. It draws upon a survey of Wisconsin practitioners, three months of observation in lawyers' offices, semi-structured interviews with practitioners, a survey of recipients of direct mail solicitations from...

This paper reviews and analyzes extant data on the effective hourly rates achieved from contingency fee cases and reports detailed analyses of data from a survey of Wisconsin contingency fee practitioners. The analyses emphasize the need to examine returns across sets of cases rather than on a...